• Dampne

    Full definition of dampne

    Verb

    1. (transitive, obsolete) To damn.
      • unknown date, Geoffrey Chaucer
      • 1547, Anne Askew, The lattre examinacyon of Anne Askewe in 1996, Elaine V. Beilin, The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, page 86:But lete them be ware least they dampne not their owne wretched sowles.
      • Sir Thomas Wyat (1503 – 1542), Certayne Psalmes in 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets: from Chaucer to Cowper, volume 2, page 395:But when he wayeth the fault, and recompence,
        He dampneth this hys dede and fyndeth playne
        Atwene them two no whytt equiualence: ...
      • Thomas Cranmer (1489 – 1556), Certayne Psalmes in 1836, Richard Challoner, Modern British Martyrology, Keating, Brown & Co., page 58:For hereby shall be a great occasion to satisfie the Princess Dowager and the Lady Mary, which doe thinke that they sholde dampne thair sowles if thay sholde abandon and relinquish thair astats.

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